Picture This!Found Still Life: Flea Markets And Antique Stands

Our Picture This! assignment this month was for images made at flea markets and antique stores, where the sellers act as impromptu art directors and assemble their wares in often interesting ways. The assignment was to go on a kind of treasure hunt for those found still life photo ops, and to make framing and compositional decisions that created a cultural mix through juxtaposition of objects and their symbolism. A key element was lighting, be it natural, artificial and flash, and how the illumination gave the objects form, given that the photographer could not rearrange the objects at will. The fun came in the serendipity that an assignment like this fosters. Readers responded with a wide variety of images that reflected the rich mine of potential images in various locales.